Designated Research Areas

Announcement for IBS Designated Research Areas

IBS designated research areas of research centers are as follows. Please refer to the information below when submitting your application.

Purpose

IBS has designated specific research areas that are deemed suitable to select directors for mid/long-term research in order to establish research centers that pursue research of excellence.

IBS aims to develop its research capabilities in basic science as well as enhance national research competencies with designated research areas to focus on national or international significant, promising research.

Desiginated Research Areas

Desiginated Research Areas

Category

Research Area

Existing designated research areas

Mathematics

■ Mathematics

ㆍ Scientific computing

ㆍ Arithmetic and algebraic structure

ㆍ Randomness

ㆍ Nonlinearity

ㆍ Dynamics

Physics

Theoretical Physics

■ Theoretical fundamental physics

ㆍ Particle & nuclear theory

ㆍ String theory & gravitation/field theory

ㆍ Astrophysics & cosmology

ㆍ Other emerging research areas

■ Condensed-matter and complex systems theory

ㆍ Strongly correlated electron system

ㆍ Statistical physics

ㆍ Biological physics

ㆍ Computational physics

ㆍ Interdisciplinary physics studies

ㆍ Other emerging research areas

Rare isotope (RI) sciences

■ Nuclear physics

ㆍ Structure

ㆍ Astrophysics

ㆍ Reaction

ㆍ Theory

■ Applied RI sciences

ㆍ Condensed matter physics

ㆍ Radiation biology/oncology and medical physics

ㆍ Nuclear energy/nuclear data

ㆍAtomic and molecular physics

ㆍOther RI sciences

Science of global and regional environmental changes

■ Anthropogenic climate forcing and biogeochemical cycles

■ Responses of marine ecosystem

■ The coastal zone including extreme events

■ Integrated impact assessment

Newly assigned designated research areas

Mathematics / Computer science

■ MathematicsㆍMathematics of imaging

■ Data science

Physics

■ Quantum information control science

■ Multi-messenger science

■ Ultrafast X-ray and optical science

Chemistry

■ Experimental and theoretical chemical physics

■ Chemical biology

■ Molecular electronics

■ Next-generation synthesis of complex molecules

Life Sciences

■ Developmental biology

■ Systems neuroscience

■ Molecular genetics

■ Emerging infectious diseases

■ Integrated omics ecology: biology of unseen

Interdisciplinary

■ Science of imaging

■ Other emerging research areas

※ For more information on the details of research content for each research area, please refer to <Appendix>